How Their First Home Became This North Carolina Couple’s Forever Home

For the past four decades, Tom and Leslie Allin have lived around the country and the world, as Mr. Allin worked his way up the management chain in Europe. McDonald’sbecame CEO of Jollibee Foods Corporation in Manila and then served as Chief Veteran Experience Officer in Washington, DC under President Barack Obama.

But the modern home the couple built next to a creek in Durham, NC, is the first place they’ve moved where they know they’re meant to live.